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Difference between revisions of "Jessie Darcey"
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Opera soprano in Willa Cather's 1915 novel The Song of the Lark.
Now, take that new soprano they're all making such a fuss about, Jessie Darcey. She's going on tour with a symphony orchestra and she's working up her repertory with Bowers. She's singing some Schumann songs Mr. Harsanyi used to go over with me. Well, I don't know what he would do if he heard her."
"But if your own work goes well, and you know these people are wrong, why do you let them discourage you?"
Thea shook her head. "That's just what I don't understand myself. Only, after I've heard them all afternoon, I come out frozen up. Somehow it takes the shine off of everything. People want Jessie Darcey and the kind of thing she does; so what's the use?"
